Tag: 1903 Paris-madrid Race
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Feb 03 2021
Kleiner’s Korner: Part 3 - The Race that Brought Willie K. “Racing” to America”
The final part of this series provides additional photographs of the race participants and their automobiles, including as Peter Helck notes, the "illustrious" Madam du Gast. Courtesy of the Helck Family Collection.
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Dec 29 2020
Kleiner’s Korner: Part 2 - The Race that Brought Willie K. “Racing” to America”
Here are the next set of photographs of the participants of the 1903 Paris to Madrid race. Courtesy of the Helck Family Collection.
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Dec 23 2020
Kleiner’s Korner: Part 1 - The Race that Brought Willie K. “Racing” to America”
Found in the Peter Helck Family Collection are over 30 photographs of the 1903 Paris to Madrid race of which Willie K., Foxhall Keene and Fernand Gabriel participated.
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Jan 04 2020
Helck Family Collection: Original Transcript- Willie K. and the “Race to Death”
Among the treasures of the Helck Family Collection is an original typewritten profile of William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. dated November 26, 1969. This section of the article describes Vanderbilt's participation in the 1903 Paris-Madrid Race which became known as the "Race of Death".
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May 14 2010
William K. Vanderbilt Jr- “Un Millionaire Recordman” and Auto Race Driver
From 1902 to 1903, William K. Vanderbilt Jr. traveled throughout Europe. Here he found magnificent open roads to drive as fast as he dared and an education in the new sport of automobile racing. On May 2, 1902, he set the world’s kilometer record in a 40-horsepower Mercedes, averaging 110 kilometers per hour or 68.4 mph. He was hailed in the French magazine La Vie Au Grand Air as “Un Millionaire Recordman.”
